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Personality Profiles Associated with Different Motivations for Playing World of Warcraft
No full textGamers play massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs) for a variety of reasons. For example, some gamers play primarily as a form of socialization, whereas others play to gain a sense of achievement. Past studies have shown that these motives are associated with individual differences such as gender and number of years spent playing online games. What other individual differences might affect why people play MMORPGs? Personality is known to be associated with in-game behaviors, raising the possibility of link between personality and gaming motives. The present study examines the relationship between gamers' Big Five personality traits and their motivations for playing World of Warcraft. Results reveal several links between a player's personality and gaming motivations. For instance, individuals playing to socialize tend to be high on extraversion, agreeableness, neuroticism, and openness, whereas individuals playing to gain a sense of achievement tend to be high on extraversion and neuroticism, but low on agreeableness and conscientiousness. Findings are discussed with respect to previous research on links between personality and motives in other MMORPGs and in terms of how and why the connections between personality and motives may differ across online and offline contexts.Psycholog
Letter, [Author unclear] to Paulina T. Merritt
No full textHandwritten letter to Paulina Merritt from an unknown author, October 1, 1876.
An exploratory empirical study of engineering and production decoupling configurations in ETO Machinery Industry
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Determinants for order-fulfilment strategies in engineer-to-order companies: insights from the machinery industry
No full textRecent empirical studies have refined our understanding of engineer-to-order (ETO) situations, supporting the existence of different order-fulfilment strategies based on the degree of customer involvement in the engineering and production activities, which differs depending on the strategic fit with the environment in which the company operates. Despite the importance of this finding, limited attempts have been made to comprehensively understand the determinants for this strategic choice in ETO companies. To overcome this gap, this study aimed to investigate the sources of differentiation between the environments that ETO companies can face and the ways of reacting to strategically fit the order-fulfilment strategy. Therefore, this research analysed the existing literature through a contingency theory lens and performed a multiple case-study research in a specific ETO sector, i.e. the machinery industry. The study identified five different order-fulfilment strategies implemented in the machinery industry to provide different product families to the market. For each strategy, the different environment characteristics were defined, and the performance outcome was measured, explaining the rationale for the positioning of the product families in different strategies. The findings of this study have two main contributions. First, the study contributes to theory by deepening and refining the analysis of contingencies for choosing different order-fulfilment strategies in the ETO context. Second, the study provides practical guidelines to ETO companies that want to adapt their order-fulfilment strategies to the unexpected or planned changes in their environment
Integrate Customer Order Decoupling Point and Mass Customisation Concepts: A Literature Review
No full textExpéditions scientifiques anglaises dans l'Afrique centrale. La mission Alexander-Gosling dans la Nigeria et au lac Tchad
No full textExpéditions scientifiques anglaises dans l'Afrique centrale. La mission Alexander-Gosling dans la Nigeria et au lac Tchad. In: Annales de Géographie, t. 14, n°78, 1905. pp. 473-474
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